MCP Tools vs Resources vs Prompts: What to Expose to an AI Agent
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When a team first wraps an internal platform in MCP, the result almost always looks the same: forty tools named get_x , list_x , create_x , and update_x , plus a few things that should never have been tools at all. The model gets lost, picks the wrong getter, and burns context reading giant respons…
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- 2026-10-03 23:30 · DEV Community — AI
MCP Tools vs Resources vs Prompts: What to Expose to an AI Agent